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title: Isaiah 29:9 (JPS 1917) — Blind yourselves, and be blind! ye that are drunken, but not with wi… · tree and pragmatics
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# Isaiah 29:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Blind yourselves, and be blind! ye that are drunken, but not with wine, that stagger, but not with strong drink.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** blind, be, stagger · **To what, where:** yourselves

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This is Isaiah 29:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:ISA:601
# text = Blind yourselves, and be blind! ye that are drunken, but not with wine, that stagger, but not with strong drink.
1	Blind	blind	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
8	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	vocative	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	drunken	drunken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stagger	stagger	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blind** | imperative | you *not said here* | yourselves |  |  |  | ye *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | drunken *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stagger** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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הִתְמַהְמְה֣וּ וּתְמָ֔הוּ הִשְׁתַּֽעַשְׁע֖וּ וָשֹׁ֑עוּ שָֽׁכְר֣וּ וְלֹא־יַ֔יִן נָע֖וּ וְלֹ֥א שֵׁכָֽר׃

[Isaiah 29:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.29.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Stupefy yourselves, and be stupid!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.600/)
2. **Blind yourselves, and be blind! ye that are drunken, but not with wine, that stagger, but not with strong drink.**

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:601` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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